By Adedoyin Falolu
As a result of no election in Ihiala Local Government last Saturday, final result was put on hold.
Today,the Supplementary election is ongoing as announced by INEC.
The distribution of election materials and deployment of INEC officials went as planned at Ihiala LGA HQ.
Thirty minutes after the expected commencement of the exercise, some election materials are yet to be distributed.
As at the time of this report,election has commenced with presence of tight security.
It is expected that a winner will emerge at the conclusion of today’s Supplementary election.
The development came after election results for 20 out of 21 local government areas (LGAs) had been collated and announced.
Florence Obi, the returning officer, said the decision to suspend the collation of results is to give room for a supplementary election in Ihiala LGA.
Election result so far puts Chukwuma Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) at 103,946 votes,
Valentine Ozigbo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) secured 51,322 votes
and Andy Uba, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), polled 42,942 votes.